Deepak Kumar Jha
Bangalore
Summary
Dedicated Corporate Actions Specialist with 13 years of experience in enhancing operational efficiency and client focused solutions. Strong Skills in stakeholder communication and policy development. Experienced in large size team handling and project management. Strong domain experience in Mandatory, Voluntary & Income Corporate Actions on domestic and international markets. Events like splits, dividends, spin-offs, rights Issue, mergers and acquisitions, tender offer, Subscription offer, exchange offer, consent, Dutch Auction, Cash Dividends, Drips, Drop's, Partial call, Full call etc. Worked on Products like Mutual Funds, Elf's, Equity, Fixed Income, Derivatives etc. Proficiency in Microsoft Excel skills: Formulae, functions, charts, different SWIFT Msg. Experience in using third party financial databases like Bloomberg, Interactive Data Corporation, Reuters, other sites like DTCC, TCS Bancs, CCH/FCAT, IM Actions Etc.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Manager
GepactIndia Pvt Ltd
07.2024 - 04.2026
- Managed a team of 18 professionals, overseeing client accounts and ensuring all corporate action event.
- Event scrubbing and publishing it our clients for all corporate action events Setting up the announcement in Custodian transact processing system for timely payment.
- Tracking the instructions received and processing the entitlements accordingly.
- Reviewing the unmatched/stuck trade instructions received from our clients and fixing it up to release them in the market for smooth settlement Tracking and reporting of fails trades to our clients.
- Posted correctly in accounting data base. Rich experience in preparing reconciliations tracking with custody, cash reconciliation, Position reconciliation all the type of corporate action event.
- Review Corporate Action, Pricing, Data Quality Check, Trade Capturing and Investors activity done by different teams.
- Understanding of corporate actions exceptions and logic.
- As Manager my Responsibility to Update the MIS (Management Information system) for Upper Management.
- Keeping strong relation between clients and agent/issuers by contacting directly.
- Managing Day to day operation related corporate actions/Income Process.
- Handling all escalations from client side as well as from upstream &Downstream team.
- Managing all the recon breaks aged/new, suggesting proper way to clean up.
- Preparing KPI and KRI, SOD/MOD/EOD reports, sending to Onshore counterpart.
- Managing staffing, alignment of employees, attrition and selection process.
- Helping the entire team on any CA critical events, arranging cross training as per need.
- Providing automation ideas and implementing with the help of automation team.
- Key Accomplishment under Genpact- Automated the entire DTCC platform after which the All-CA events automatically flowing to internal Applications and getting posted which is saving immense time and avoiding errors and misses.
Team Lead
JP MORGAN and Chase
04.2020 - 07.2024
- Work is related to validation of announcement capture, processing and reconciliation of all Mandatory and Voluntary Corporate actions.
- Handling of all type of CA medium to complex events along with Taxable events.
- Resolving the Breaks post Corporate Actions. Targeting to clear the all the breaks once received in IRECs platform.
- Working on Taxability related to CA with various tax cases and submitting the report to Tax team.
- Working on QC part post all processed events.
- Responsible for announcement capturing, processing & validation of Income, Mandatory & voluntary corporate actions, forecasting and client reporting for APAC/EMEA and WHEM regions.
- Responsible for investigating and closing all the income exceptions generated through exception management system per schedule.
- Maximizing team capacity through effective resource planning and ensuring team structure is robust through effective training and succession planning (Efficient and successful planning during COVID 19/ cross process training/ conducting BCP).
- Ensuring all daily controls and processing are completed and signed off including client service enquiry resolution, cash, and stock break management as well as event management within the SLA.
- Ownership of issues related to the Asset Services Department and ensuring timely escalation to both Operational and Risk leads (managing HUB/DHC meetings across regions/ attending daily production calls).
- Continuous review of content and presentation of Standard Operating Procedures, in line with introduction of new policies and ongoing risk management activities Assisting managers and senior leaders in daily governance & supervisory control.
- Worked on automation of all Corporate Actions through Alteryx platform was leading the project and successfully implemented which in turn reduced the manual touch point drastically and giving desired result without any error or misses. Earlier all the processing was manual, now processing happening through Alteryx which is saving immense time with outmost accuracy.
Financial Analyst
Societe General Global solution center
10.2015 - 03.2020
- Calculated NAV for the Mutual fund Private Equity fund, hedge fund and fund of funds.
- Traded processed, cash and portfolio reconciled, security priced, and corporate actions resolved to compute correct NAV valuation for clients.
- Demonstrated broad competence in computing NAV, preparing valuations, and performing monthly and yearly audit reports for Mutual Funds.
- Ensured settlement of daily trades, forward and spot payments of dividend and interest, and updated securities prices for clients (utilizing Bloomberg and structured products.
- Analyzed cash, derivative, mutual, and institutional funds, and performed NAV calculation, custody, and fund manager reconciliation processes.
- Reviewed corporate actions, pricing, data quality checks, trade capturing, and investor activity conducted by different teams.
- Reviewed all security prices.
- Reviewed daily cash and position reconciliations.
- Get Bloomberg support for price, Corporate Actions, FX difference etc.
- Make sure all trades/Prices and rates are correct, fill Fund’s Checklist.
- GP3, Accurate, BLOOMBER.
- Keeping strong relation between clients and agent/issuers by contacting directly.
Research Analyst
RR Donnelley & Sons
Chennai
01.2012 - 09.2015
- Preparing monthly and quarterly financial reports analyzing and planning.
- In depth analysis on variances and comparing reports actual vs budget (Balance Sheet Income statement and cash flow and comparison to previous reporting periods.
- Assist in data analysis, data validation, reviews of standard reports and analyze actual Actual vs. budget, dashboard analysis and instant analysis like (ad-hock analysis).
- Prepare financial budgets and perform Cash Flow analysis. Which includes profitability and financial statements.
- Coordinating, planning, and executing the financial reporting components for the external audit.
- Preparing financial reports and interacting with clients, developing and maintaining Knowledge on financial reporting tools and applications like (RIVET and Hyperion and Edgar online).
Education
B. Com -
IGNOU University
01-2007
MS - Finance
IBS Hyderabad
01-2010
Skills
- People Management
- Corporate Action
- Alteryx
- Xceptor
- Fund Accounting
- Portfolio Valuation
- Nav Calculation
- Hedge fund
- Prive Equity Fund
- Mutual fund
- Corporate Action
- Trade processing and settlement
- Security Pricing
- Cash and Position Reconciliation
- Process Transaction
- Onboarding to new client
Languages
English
Advanced
C1
Hindi
Advanced
C1
Achievement
- Best Performer Award during 10 Q and 10K Peaks for outstanding performance at RR Donnelley.
- Best Subject matter expert Award for the automation in Process in June 2023.
- Appreciation for Event management in Dec 2025 in Genpact.
Timeline
Manager
GepactIndia Pvt Ltd
07.2024 - 04.2026
Team Lead
JP MORGAN and Chase
04.2020 - 07.2024
Financial Analyst
Societe General Global solution center
10.2015 - 03.2020
Research Analyst
RR Donnelley & Sons
01.2012 - 09.2015
B. Com -
IGNOU University
MS - Finance
IBS Hyderabad